Subject: Northeast Regional Digest (NEDIG)

March 25, 2003 Boston Herald, March 24GE Capital has hired an architectural firm to help jazz up Independence Wharf, the troubled harborside high-rise that it bought last year from Big Dig contractor Les Marino. Jung/Brannen Associates will design a more ...

March 24, 2003 The New York TimesRetail property owners confronting empty anchor space need to be creative in finding new uses, said Alan Yaffe, a partner in Melville, N.Y.-based Triangle Properties, which owns more than 10 shopping centers on Long ...

March 19, 2003 The Times (Trenton, N.J.)Mercedes-Benz is expected to receive approvals tonight to construct a 1.2 million-square-foot parts distribution center in Washington Township, N.J., to serve its Northeast operations. Part of the plan includes constructing a 50,000-sf, two-story office ...

March 19, 2003 New York PostBlank Rome Tenzer Greenblatt has renewed and expanded its occupancy to total about 110,000 square feet at the Chrysler Building in New York City. Rent will start in the low- to mid-$50/sf range under the ...

March 19, 2003 The New York TimesMadison Equities plans to build a hotel and office tower at 410 E. 92nd St., between First and York avenues in New York City. The hotel, operated as a Courtyard by Marriott, would occupy ...

March 18, 2003 Chicago TribuneA U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Chicago has set a trial schedule beginning in April for the dispute between Carmel, Ind.-based Conseco Inc. and Donald Trump regarding the ownership of the General Motors Building in New ...

March 18, 2003 The Boston GlobeA Somerville, Mass., community group filed suit yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court to block construction of an Ikea furniture store at Assembly Square, citing the potential for massive traffic jams and increased air pollution. The ...

March 18, 2003 The Boston GlobeAlan M. Leventhal said his Beacon Capital partners paid $910 million for a portfolio of buildings from John Hancock Financial because it would pay off handsomely. "At the end of the day, the reason we ...

March 17, 2003 The New York TimesWith New Jersey's commercial real estate market remaining weak, many firms are particularly eager to do school work – designing, building and repairing school buildings and developing commercial areas around schools and universities. The ...

March 17, 2003 Banker & TradesmanPlans to construct the five-building InWood Office Park on the Reading/Woburn border in Massachusetts have been scrapped in favor of marketing the 57-acre parcel for apartment or condominium use. The decision underscores the weakness of ...